I have a Canon MP730. This machine shares the telephone line with my telephone desk set. The fax machine wants to activate when the telephone rings. I have the settings on the fax machine set to manual mode vs auto receive.. Any ideas on how to correct this problem.

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Step by step information at the link below.Brother Fax T96The F/T
Mode is used to allow the fax machine and the telephones to share the
same telephone line. When a call comes in, the fax machine and all
extension telephones on that line will ring according to the number of
rings you have set for the Ring Delay.
When the Ring Delay is completed, the fax machine will answer the call
and determine if it is a fax call or a telephone (voice) call.
The fax machine can determine this by the signal it is receiving on the
telephone line. If someone is sending a fax automatically , the sending
fax machine will transmit a fax tone (a series of beeps every 3
seconds).
If your fax machine hears these tones, it will receive the fax.

If the fax machine does not hear any fax tones, it assumes it is a
telephone (voice) call and will begin ringing the F/T ring tones (double
ring) for the length of time you selected for the F/T Ring Time. These
tones will only ring on the fax machine's handset (extension or external
phones will not ring). At the end of the F/T ring time the fax machine
will go into the receive mode in order to receive a manual fax.
(If the call was a voice call and was not answered, the caller will hear the fax receive tones also).

If you answer the call before the fax machine(during the ring delay
period) and determine it is a fax, you can transfer the fax to the fax
machine for receiving.

If you answer the call on an "extension" phone and hear a beep every 3 seconds (automatic fax) or silence (manual fax), press *51 or *91
for New Zealand (remote activation code) on the telephone keypad, wait
to hear the fax machine turn on (chirping sounds) and then hang up.

If you answer on the handset of the fax machine and hear a beep every 3 seconds or silence, press the FaxStart or Start/Copy key on the control panel of the fax machine and then hang up the handset.

If you answer a call on an "extension" phone during the F/T Ring Time, you will hear the F/T ring tones.
To release the call from the fax machine, press #51 or #91 for New Zealand (remote deactivation code) on the telephone keypad and you can speak to the calling party.

If you pick up the handset of the fax machine during the F/T ring time, you may talk to the calling party immediately.

These machines come with several receiving modes that can be programmed ... mostly by design but quite often ... by accident.

I would check the User Manual for Ring Patterns, Silent Reception and Fax Priority.You can always see or print out the Option Settings of your facsimile. There it will show the exact picture of what the fax must know before answering the incoming call.Does it have Fax Tone Detection? Is it set for automatic answering? Faxback? Polling?

Maybe a power hickup might have scrambled some of the programmed features?Obviously nobody in the location monkeyed around with tha fax buttons, right?By George. Of course not!

If the fax machine you send the faxes to is set not to show the ID (telephone number) it will not show the tellephone number in the activity report.If you use a telephone conected to the fax and you dail a number from the handset it will aslo not display a id on the activity report.

For a phone line dedicated only to the fax machine, the process is as follows:

Press Menu/Set, 0, 1.

You will see the Fax Receive window

Use UP and DOWN arrows to change the setting to FAX ONLY

Press Menu/Set.

Press STOP/EXIT

Your fax machine will now answer every incoming call. If the fax machine is sharing the phone line with a telephone, repeat the above steps and change from FAX ONLY to FAX/TEL This option will allow you to share the line with a phone only, not an answering machine. Once in FAX/TEL mode, the fax machine will still grab every incoming FAX call, and give a special ring (slightly different than a regular telephone ring) when it's a regular incoming phone call signaling you to answer the phone. I hope this helps with your problem. Best of luck!Greg

You can hook a fax to any standard phone line. That is what they are designed for. The only issue is if you share the fax with your telephone, you will need to set the machine up to receive the fax before you answer the phone.

Sounds as though you are answer ing a phone that is not connected to the unit and you have the Man/Auto switch set to on. Press Function then Data Registration press Set using the > scroll to RX Settings press Set scroll to Man/Auto Switch make sure it is turned to Off.

Well... the problem is that you are running two machines on one line. ONE of them has to take predominance.
Both machines should have settings for "number of rings to answer at". It sounds like you currently have the fax set to less than the answering machine, so the fax picks up after two rings, while your answering machine might be set to more, which it never gets to, because the fax answered the call already(It doesn't matter if you answer the phone, or the fax picks up, once the line is open, the answering machine is taken out of the equation). Even if you set the answering machine to answer first, you're then taking the fax service out of the loop.
I'm not sure how you're going to juggle that, since both types of machines each need control over the line to work properly.
That's why we (business machine folk) always recommend a dedicated line for fax service.